I remember hearing him talk about "Every Breath" years back and how he woke up out of a dead sleep with the refrain running through his head. Even then, I thought the thing was overly creepy and yet so damned catchy. It 'is' the Stalker's theme music.

I see him addressing complaints that "so you sent my letters back" and "my LP records and they're all scratched" doesn't actually rhyme. Who the hell complains about that sh*t? That line couplet is terrific.

In college, I tested out of all the mandatory English courses but was required to take a crapload of English credit hours to graduate. So I ended up taking all the weird ones, which in retrospect was cool (spending an entire semester on Faulkner was exhausting, but amazing too). One course I took on modern literature had a module entitled "the poetry of rock music" in which we analyzed lyrics of The Police, Jethro Tull, The Ramones, etc. etc. I remember writing a comparison and contrast paper with the two themes under consideration being Araby (a short story) by James Joyce and Wrapped Around Your Finger by the Police.

Anybody who writes lyrics that reference "the Scylla and Charybdis" is worthy of study.

cevarius:The Police - Live at The Old Grey Whistle Test (02/10/1978)"Can't Stand Losing You and Next To You, performed live during a taping of The Old Grey Whistle Test. This performance marks the first ever television appearance of The Police in the UK."

AdrienVeidt:puckrock2000: tillerman35:Anybody who writes lyrics that reference "the Scylla and Charybdis" is worthy of study.

Except for the fact that he rhymes it with "young apprentice" (there's one of those dodgy rhymes again), and pronounces "Charybdis" wrong - it's "ka-RIB-dis", not "kar-BEE-dis", you pretentious twit.

Dafuq are you talking about? The only way I know it's properly pronounced is because of him. The song is the only place I've ever heard it out loud.

I seem to remember the first time I heard it, and giving him props for it being properly pronounced. Only one way to check. (Toodles off to YouTube...) Hmmm... He does sort of trail off a bit while singing "Charybdis," but if I crank the volume to 11, it certainly sounds correct.

I think Ray Davies is one of the great pop/rock songwriters, Paul Weller has written some great stuff and [ducks] Damon Albarn had a great run from Modern Life Is Rubbish > 13.

whizbangthedirtfarmer: What I remember during the time period was that there were a large number of people who played the song at their weddings, or otherwise called it "their" song. It's about a stalker, people.

There's also the people that play(ed) R.E.M.'s The One I Love, even though the lyrics are

This one goes out to the one I loveThis one goes out to the one I've left behindA simple prop to occupy my timeThis one goes out to the one I love

Lyrics, what are they for?

Sting gets a pass from me because he wrote Message In A Bottle, Noel Gallagher because of Champagne Supernova. Mileage may possibly vary.